Welcome to The Local Enterprise Office Carlow

What is the Local Enterprise Office?

The Local Enterprise Office is for people interested in starting up a new business or are already in business including entrepreneurs, early stage promoters, start-ups and business looking to expand.

The Local Enterprise Office provides advice, information and support to you in starting up or growing your business as part of a network of 31 dedicated teams across the Local Authority network in Ireland.

Local Enterprise Offices offer you a wide range of experience, skills and services. Your Local Enterprise Office in Carlow is based in Enterprise House, O'Brien Road in Carlow Town.

An initiative of the Action Plan for Jobs, Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are committed to delivering an enhanced and more integrated support service for micro and small business in Ireland.

How We Can Help You

Local Enterprise Office - Carlow will continue to serve as a first stop shop to provide support and services to start, grow and develop micro business in the County Carlow area.

Over €2 million worth of project concepts were submitted to Carlow County Council under the Town & Village Scheme and 12 project areas were selected by the elected members for entry into the National Competitive Fund for Town & Village Renewal.
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Local Enterprise Office –Carlow is seeking expressions of interest from clients engaged in the craft, design and gift sector interested in taking a stand in the Enterprise Zone at Showcase 18th – 21st January 2015. ...

Duckett’s Grove Castle just outside Carlow Town will be the venue for the second Business Picnic being held on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 hosted by Carlow & Wexford Local Enterprise Offices and partners....

ManagementWorks is an initiative from the State Company Skillnets, under the Governments Action Plan for Jobs, aimed at providing Owners Managers/Managers of Small and Medium size Businesses with practical, impactful programmes that will make a real difference to them and to that of their business....

Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte T.D., this evening brought together Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) from around the country for the first time to upskill their Staff, Mentors and Business Advisors on the important aspects of small business trading online....

A new craft network, called FORM, was launched this week (14/05/2014) at a reception at VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow. The network consists of 12 established designer makers, who create high quality home ware, gifts and wearable pieces. ...

Case Studies

Silver Spear Gin is the inaugural product by Artisan Irish Distillers Smyth & O’Reilly which they launched to market in 2017. The distillery is located at Ballydarton House in Carlow and it is run by Gavin O’Reilly and husband and wife team Charles and Dawn Smyth. The brand is built on an extremely interesting and unique history which adds authenticity, prov-
idence and heritage to their brand story and with the support of Local Enterprise Off ice Carlow and others along the way they are now successfully exporting this fantastic artisan product internationally from their base here in Carlow....

Valg Studio is the brainchild of Liga Valge who first began working with polymer clay in 2011, quickly becoming fascinated by the possibilities that this versatile medium had to offer. Since then Liga has set up Valg Studio and designs jewellery and homeware pieces, each designed and made by hand. Liga Valge is a member of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and the International Polymer Clay Association while also being a member of FORM Carlow. FORM Carlow promotes Carlow as a destination for high-quality design and craft and provides a forum for the exchange of views, common objectives, collective activities, constructive criticism and feedback amongst highly skilled designer-makers and craftspeople. This is a really interesting profile for anyone interested in design, crafts or indeed anyone with a family to care for who is thinking about returning to work and...

Payzaar is a new, revolutionary approach to global payroll. Their philosophy is simple; allow customers to leverage what works (i.e. the existing local payroll expertise) and augment it with what is lacking (i.e. the integration and harmonisation across the local payrolls). Rather than forcing customers to rip and replace their local payroll solution in order to benefi t from an integrated global solution, they decided to leverage those existing local solutions and build around them. It is a powerful platform that helps to streamline global payroll operations and gain unparal-
leled insights into your organisation’s global employee bases and payroll data. No matter how far reaching your business operating territories are, Payzaar brings it all together for you. This is an interesting Q&A with Trevor Townsend, Co-Founder and COO of a
relatively new company, this is certainly a company to watch and one we can all learn from....

CGL Retail Solutions formerly Carlow Graphics is a really exciting business that provides fi tting, printing, sign making,
display and creative design solutions and they are based here in Carlow for over 23 years. CGL Retail is a superb company to read about as they started out as a small printing and sign making business back in 1994 and through hard work, adapt-
ability and exceptional standards CGL Retail Solutions has grown to the exciting entity it is today. We love their mantra “Dream Big” and we hope you enjoy this Q&A with company owner Mark Dowling....

BioLogiQ provides expert, up-to-the-minute and customised management system consultancy, auditing services and training courses that are both comprehensive and practical. They work with public and private sectors to assist them in meeting their environmental, health and safety, laboratory, quality, energy management, social responsibility and sustainability requirements as well as ecological studies and screening reports....